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The Daily Dispatch: October 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Portsmouth. (search)
vis dwelt upon the inconvenience of change. For several centuries after the Church was established, it bore the title Catholic, and derived character from it. Subsequently, when corruption crept in, it was not so. It became a falsehood. Protestant in due time became the true term, and gave its historic testimony to the pure and true Church. Viewing each in its time, Catholic and Protestant are in harmony. The term Episcopal likewise testifies to the true Government of the Church. Bishop Otey contended that the term Protestant is derived from Germany, and was not originally directed against errors in the Church of Rome. He alluded to the present war as the result, in his belief, of ultra Protestantism or Puritanism. He objected more particularly to the expression "in the Confederate States." It was entangling. Rev. Dr. Crane, of Mississippi, considered that to take the name Reformed Catholic would be but to resume the appropriate and original title of the Church. Cramn